SPRINGFIELD – Forty-five students
and two faculty members from the undergraduate and graduate programs in the
College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois at Springfield
were inducted into Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society for business,
management and administration. The ceremony was held Sunday, May 5, on the UIS
campus.

UIS Chancellor Richard D. Ringeisen presented honorary
memberships to area businessmen Harry Kirschner and Leonard Sapp. Ringeisen
was himself inducted as an honorary member last year. Other previous honorees
have included Clifford Greenwalt, president and CEO (retired) of Central Illinois
Public Service Co., and George R. Bunn, chair of Bunn-O-Matic Corporation.

Sigma Beta Delta was founded as a national organization
in 1994 to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement among students
of business, management, and administration, and to encourage and promote personal
and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to
humanity. For business students who attend a college or university with a Sigma
Beta Delta chapter, membership is the highest national recognition they can
receive.